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The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly coughed and spat on a pensioner while shouting about the virus. A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to Ashton-under-Lyme town centre on the evening of 17 March “to a report that earlier that evening a boy had been coughing and shouting ‘coronavirus’ at a 66-year-old woman”.